The only way I can see this really working long term is for the roads themselves to be energized, so that you're constantly charging while you're traveling. No one is going to want to take a 40+ minute break every 3 hours or whatever just to "gas up." This is especially true for autonomous driving; it's a whole lot less convenient when your sleep/work/whatever is interrupted like that while you travel long distances.
I don't even know if that's possible, much less how much it would cost or if there are health issues associated with it.
I'd think the tech is there, or close, considering you can charge your phone without a plug.
That said, while I'm no electrical engineer, building "charging roads" would be wlidly expensive and your energy loss would be cost prohibitive unless we had clean, cheap, renewable energy. If we had that all of this climate shit would go away and a small enough source of clean, cheap energy wouldn't require batteries or all of that infrastructure to power our homes or even our cars.
Which is how I can demolish almost any environmentalist's argument. The solution isn't banning plastics or EV's or whatever, it is clean, cheap, renewable energy. That solves almost everything.
But we aren't spending our money on that which is why I consider this climate nonsense to be a scam. We're hellbent on any solution BUT an energy source. COVID is a baby conspiracy compared to renewable energy. I could go on and on how broken all of this shit is, but the solution is clean, cheap, renewable energy. Nuclear power is a great stopgap except it takes a decade or two to build a new plant IF you can receive permission.
Energy solves, mitigates, or reduces so many of the world's problems and not just the climate. Clean water, more food, better quality of life, less poverty, the ability to support the populations of "emerging" (I prefer 'shithole', but YMMV) nations. Energy fixes all of this or we can ban plastic straws.
I should probably start learning Mandarin.
